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VOICES OF HISTORY, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers No. 29 To oblige the great body of the yeomanry, and of the other classes of the citizens, to be under arms for the purposes of going through military exercises and evolutions, as often as might be necessary to acquire the degree of...
GUEST COLUMN, Dane Hicks, Anderson County Review If Gen. Dwight Eisenhower had been a dopey, gutless sap, he might have fallen for Operation Greif when the Jerrys tried to pull the wool over the eyes of allied forces in Europe in 1944, which could have swept the tide of the war back into...
GUEST COLUMN, John Richard Schrock, Library Frontlines The U.S. detects and treats about 2,000 malaria cases each year. For the last decades, they have only been in travelers, usually from southern Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. But five recent cases in Maryland, Florida and Texas have no...
GUEST COLUMN, Ganon Evans, Kansas Policy Institute Despite August 2023 coming in below expectations across the board, FY 2024’s tax collections thus far are blowing FY 2023’s out of the water. For instance, income tax collections for FY 2024 were 1.7 percent below the prediction, but 3.7...
MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron Here’s another in a series of summaries for New Testament books, which we plan to continue until Christmas. More information and content of the book will be provided each week on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/barbaran.gary We pray that the...
THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon I’m staying “up north” with Mom and Dad, and that is always good. My mom and dad have built a life that is pretty much exactly the way they like it. They have rituals and habits they do almost without thinking. But the amazing thing—to me—is that just about...
L&T Publisher Earl Watt New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham may have done something that no other American has been able to do — she united Republicans and Democrats, but probably not the way she intended. A tragic shooting took place near Albuquerque in a road rage incident...
GUEST COLUMN, Jackie Mundt, Kansas Farm Bureau I am not a great lover of sports, but I have always enjoyed America’s favorite pastime: baseball. My uncle regularly took us to watch the Brewers play at the old County Stadium in Milwaukee. Game days were long because we lived three hours...
GUEST COLUMN, Dick Morris In a McLaughlin & Associates survey of 1,000 likely voters, taken on July 25, 2023, 10 percent of those who voted for Biden in 2020 have now switched and would vote for Trump today. Buyer’s remorse. By contrast, only two percent of those who voted for Trump...
VOICES OF HISTORY, Abraham Lincoln, 2nd Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 EDITOR’S NOTE — When Abraham Lincoln gave his second Inaugural Address, he didn’t speak ill of the South but instead sought a reconciliation without hatred while also declaring that slavery would be forever removed...
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GUEST COLUMN, Dick Morris
It sounds oxymoronic, but those who now say they won’t vote at all [ ... ]
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The U.S. is no longer the leader in the [ ... ]
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Kansas farmers and ranchers set a new record for [ ... ]
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